Github Website/Service very slow april 2025

[TamarJanssens]

Why is Github very slow and unresponsive? This occurs when visiting any page in the gh.com UI as well as when trying to git pull from terminal (macOS). There seems something terribly wrong with the UI lately. A request on the same URL can be fast one time, but when refreshed it can take ages while resulting in a timeout. Then after another refresh it can take a long time to complete just before the timeout, resulting in a success

When is this going to be resolved? Recently i made the choice to migrate my project to Github from Bitbucket while paying for 6 org seats for my development team. Now I actually feel ripped off and tend to regret that choice.

[phazarik]

I have noticed that the GitHub website has been slow and annoying to navigate since ~Thursday, 17 April, 2025. There is a significant delay (1/2 seconds) after I click somewhere and it displays the codes. I have no issues with committing my projects, though. CLI is fine. It's just the website navigation.

[ghostinhershell]

Hi @TamarJanssens,

Thanks so much for reaching out in our Community. I believe the root cause of the performance issues that you were seeing here were resolved. For reference, this was addressed in this discussion: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159123#discussioncomment-13148279.

Are you still seeing performance issues on your end, or has that been alleviated?

[mekedron]

Hey @TamarJanssens and @phazarik

I have exactly same issue as @phazarik - everything else is OK but not the website.

Recently, I migrated my repos from Bitbucket to GitHub. And yes, I got shocked when I realize how GitHub's web interface is slow. It takes 2-3 seconds each click to wait till the page load. I tried different computers, connections, VPNs, but nothing works. However, I noticed that in Google Chrome GitHub works fine, however, the problems I experience are in Firefox only.

@ghostinhershell unfortunately I still experience slow interface. And I never use Github anonymously, so I don't believe this is a problem I experience.

However, I could significantly improve the experience by disabling "turbo links" with this small user script:

(() => {
  'use strict'
  document.body.dataset.turbo = 'false'
  
  document.body.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
    if (!event.target.matches('a')) {
      return;
    }
    event.stopPropagation();
  }, true);
})()

I hope it might help someone.

[phazarik]

Hi @mekedron , thanks for the information. I am using Microsoft Edge for browsing GitHub. Can you please elaborate on how to use this user script? I would like to try this. I'll let you know if it improves anything.

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